Twenty-Sixth+Caluri+7

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 * Q: What is the 26 Amendment and what does it mean?**

A: The 26 Amendment is mostly all about voting. It states thats that " 1.The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, whos vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age & 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. In our words it means that every citizen in the United States who is eighteen years of age or older has the right to vote and not to be without and reduced by the United States or by any State on the relation of age. The second part states that the Congress has the power to put in affect this article by the right legislation.


 * Q: Who and when was 26th amendment written?**

A: The amendment was written on March 4th 1794 and ratifed on Febuary 7th 1795.It was the one of the fastest amendment to even be ratifed.It was proposed by the ninety-second Congress by Senate Joint Resolution No. 7.


 * Q: What does the 26 Amendment do?**

A: It allows citizens 18 or older the right to vote in Federal, State and Local elections, this allows us to be democary which is peoples choice.


 * Q: What happened for the 26 Amendment to be written?**

A: The Vietnam War had many soliders that joined at the age of 18 and it was thought to be unfair because of the old logo "old enough to fight,old enough to die." It was considered unfair that 18-year-old boys were allowed to join military service and yet they were not allowed to vote.


 * Q:Why was this amendment made?**

A: This amendment was made for a couple reasons. One of the many was it gave a right for 18 year olds to vote and it let them have a word in their government. Second, The United States thought if 18 year olds are allowed to fight and die for our country then they should also be allowed to vote in there country. This amendment now states that citizens over the age of 18 are allowed to vote and have a say in their government.


 * Q: How is it useful today?**

A: The 26th amendment was useful because it gives rights to young people who should get involed in the government by voting and giving their opinion. Yet young people don't even know when election day.


 * Q: Who does the 26th amendment affect?**

A: The 26th amendment affects people 18 years of age or over and that are citizens.


 * Q:Who wanted the 26th amendment?**

A: President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon Jonsons as well as citizens who wanted to vote at a younger age because of the Vietnam War.



__States Face Desicions On Who Is Mentally Fit To Vote__
===My current event is about how election officals are taking measures to not allow mentally ill people to vote. It also talks about how people who have Bipolar Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, and brain injury wouldn't be allowed to vote if this law //passes//. I do not agree with this article because even if you are mentally ill you are still ar citizen of the United States of America, and you should have the right to vote. I mean if you are mentaly ill you are still a person no different from anybody else and the perfectly fine people can vote so should mentally ill people.=== = =

__Keeping Students Away from Polls__
===My current event article discusses how voting privileges are taken away students because they are unaware. This article explains that youth has a big impact on the result for elections. So why are so many unaware of the voting day or the budget voting day? It was found to be that a school allowed and ad to be placed in the school newspaper saying that if students decide to vote that financial aid and could no longer be claimed as dependents on their parents’ tax returns. I think that that is very cruel considering the students have a right to vote if they are 18 or older and that by law can not be without their rights to vote. I think if schools can make it clear to the students that voting is their right and telling them specific dates and encourage them to vote that poll would go up. ===

__CHANGING THE 26TH AMENDMENT__
===My current event is about how President Bush wanted to change the 26th amendment to age 21 and how the presidents that are now trying to be the new amendment because they didn't like this rule since they said if you are old enough to die for our country you should be old enough to vote and be apart of the election. I think age 18 is actully old enough and if I was president I would want to change the age to 16 beacuse everyone should have a say because its their country as well.===